[yellowapple]

Depends on if you're looking at this from userspace or kernelspace. From the latter, you're spot on. From the former, the headline's spot on.

[masklinn]

> From the former, the headline's spot on.

Only if you're using Linux guests and assuming vDSO so not really. The headline made me first go to issues with the host/virtual hardware and some syscalls being much slower than normal across the board.